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This path gives an overview of how the Shortcut team estimates work and how the Shortcut tool effectively supports that process. Let’s breakdown how we think about point scoring. Your team may do things a little bit differently but it’s a good best practice to have this outlined in a Doc so your team is on the same page. Feel free to use this as a jumping off place for that.

It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it.

What is good software consulting? Watching a staff level engineer is a great way to learn good habits.

Handling third-party webhooks with Rails Event Store Lately, one of our clients asked us to review his Rails Event Store-based application. We helped him, as RES mentoring is one of the key fields of our professional activity. What caught our attention was the way of handling incoming webhooks from third-party services.

Whether by choice or by circumstance, you may find yourself developing a web application alone. Congratulations! You've got the house to yourself and no one telling you what to do. But at the same time, there's no one to share the burden or make up for your shortcomings. How do you build well and ensure project success? We'll look at the pros and cons of working alone, what kinds of projects are well-suited to solo development, strategies for professional growth, and development and operational processes that will save you time and help you sleep better at night.

Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.

More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.

Here’s the complete guide to customised form controls

This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. Turbo Streams are a great...

We break down 13 different types of MVPs with examples, discuss the pros and cons of each type, and suggest how to pick the right one for your business.

How we got struck by 5–year–old implementation Recently we discovered that we were wrong on computing lock key for acquiring advisory locks. It was already covered as an update to article about building read models, but we thought that telling the whole story behind the issue could be interesting for you.

A join can normally only link two static result sets together, but with LATERAL joins an efficient for-each loop with dependent subqueries can be used.

In this article, Yosra Emad explains how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. You’ll also learn how the cubic-bezier function in CSS works in detail and how to stack multiple simple animations to create one complex one.

Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch

Your team’s manual deployment process doesn’t have to be so manual. Here’s how we automated our team’s deployment process with a few lines of bash and basic Git knowledge.

A Ruby on Rails SaaS starter kit with two-factor authentication, teams spaces, and administration.

A replacement for strong parameters

You might have extended classes or instances in Rails, but do you know you can also extend Rails associations? class Account < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :people, -> { extending FindOrCreateByNameExtension }end

In this article I’ll discuss a strategy for different readability: a simple way to split your routes file on a Ruby on Rails project.

I've been working with Ruby on Rails for about 17 months now and I feel I've learned a lot so far but I want to take my knowledge one step further. For this to happen, I'll establish an actionable list of items that I either want to review or learn

Sidekiq workers consume a lot of memory: how can I fix that?

I learned to code in the Javascript stack [1] and am building a Javascript based product [2]. I never questioned this stack: many companies default to it, JS everywhere seems good, and the community is big. But for my new side project I decided to try Rails because despite some...

Why the Ruby philosophy is the exact opposite of other programming languages?

A common critique of Rails is that it encourages a poor separation of concerns. That when things get serious, you need an alternative that brings the missing pieces. We disagree.

Most programmers are familiar with the concept of premature optimization and the reasons why it’s bad. As a reminder, the main reason premature optimization is bad is because it’s an effort to solve problems that probably aren’t real. It’s more economical to wait and observe where the performance bottlenecks are than to try to predict […]